🎂 Maurice Ravel, composer of Boléro, is born (1875)
He also wrote an opera for children, The Child and the Spells.
Where: Ciboure, France
Nearby on the globe: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: March 7
March 7, 1875: Maurice Ravel, composer of Boléro, is born. Maurice Ravel was born in 1875 in Ciboure, a seaside village near the border of France and Spain. In his piece Boléro, the same melody repeats from start to finish while instruments join one by one and it grows louder and louder.
✨ More events on this day
- 1765 💡 Nicéphore Niépce was born in France; he took the oldest surviving photograph from a camera, a view from his window that needed hours of sunlight.
- 1792 🚀 John Herschel was born, son of the astronomer who found Uranus; he mapped the stars of the southern sky from South Africa and named moons of Saturn.
- 1849 🌿 Plant breeder Luther Burbank was born; he created more than 800 new kinds of plants, including the Burbank potato and the Shasta daisy.
🧠 Question of the day
What happens in Boléro?
- It is only clapping
- It stays quiet all the way
- One melody repeats and grows louder
Show the answer
Answer: One melody repeats and grows louder
🎂 Landmarks that opened on March 7
Questions
What happened on March 7?
March 7, 1875: Maurice Ravel, composer of Boléro, is born. It happened in Ciboure, France.
Which landmarks opened on March 7?
Abeno Harukas (opened 2014).
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